The Dahomeyan Democratic Party (French: Parti Démocratique Dahoméen, PDD) was the sole legal political party in Dahomey from 1963 until 1965. The PDD was...
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Islands) Dahomeyan Democratic Party, Benin Democratic Party of Benin Democratic Party (Gambia) Sudanese Democratic Party, French Sudan Ipelegeng Democratic Party...
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The Dahomeyan Democratic Movement (French: Mouvement Démocratique Dahoméen, MDD) was a political party in French Dahomey. The MDD was established in northern...
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Party of Dahomey led by Sourou-Migan Apithy and the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally led by Hubert Maga. It affiliated with the African Regroupment Party....
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Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (French: Rassemblement Démocratique Dahoméen, RDD) was a political party in French Dahomey led by Hubert Maga. The party was...
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1960 by the merger of the Republican Party of Dahomey (PRD) led by Sourou-Migan Apithy, the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) led by Hubert Maga and the...
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The Dahomeyan Democratic Union (French: Union Démocratique Dahoméenne, UDD) was a political party in French Dahomey. The UDD was established in 1955 by...
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is used to describe a dominant-party system that, unlike the one-party state, allows (at least nominally) democratic multiparty elections, but the existing...
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Political parties Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) Dahomeyan Democratic Party (PDD) People's Revolutionary Party of Benin (PRPB) Benin Rebirth Party (RB)...
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country. By April, most Dahomeyan Democratic Union (UDD) members had expressed interest in joining the Dahomeyan Unity Party, and Maga not only supported...
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Sourou-Migan Apithy and Justin Ahomadégbé founded a new one, the Dahomeyan Democratic Party (DDP) on 15 December. Adrien Degbey was elected officer of the...
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was a victory for the Dahomeyan Unity Party (PDU), a merger of the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally and the Dahomey Nationalist Party, which won all 60 seats...
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Prime Minister). Political parties Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) Dahomeyan Democratic Party (PDD) Democratic Renewal Party (PRD) Cowry Forces for...
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Maga. The country subsequently became a one-party state, and the Dahomeyan Democratic Party was the only party to contest the elections in 1964, winning...
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with the African People's Bloc, which led to the creation of the Dahomeyan Democratic Union in 1955. Patrick Manning (2004) Slavery, Colonialism and Economic...
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Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (redirect from Rally for a Democratic Africa)
RDA and variously translated as African Democratic Assembly and African Democratic Rally, was a political party in French West Africa and French Equatorial...
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In 1958 the party merged with the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD) to form the Dahomeyan Progressive Party, which was to be the Dahomeyan branch of the...
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constitutional referendum on 5 January 1964. The Dahomeyan Democratic Party (PDD) was the only party to contest the elections, and won all 42 seats in...
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Hubert Maga (category Dahomeyan Democratic Rally politicians)
Ethnic Group of the North (later the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement), which merged into the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally in 1957, received little support...
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Somalis (Djibouti), Dahomeyan Democratic Rally and the Voltaic Democratic Movement. Initially there was hope that the African Democratic Rally (RDA) would...
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April 1959. Although the Dahomeyan Democratic Union (UDD) received the most votes, they won the fewest seats. The Republican Party of Dahomey (PRD), which...
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political crisis in 1958, prior to independence, had led to Maga's Dahomeyan Democratic Movement joining a coalition government, with a subsequent crisis...
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African People's Bloc (category West Africa political party stubs)
1952 Territorial Assembly elections. In 1955 the party merged with the UPD to form the Dahomeyan Democratic Union. Mathurin C Houngnikpo & Samuel Decalo (2012)...
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Union of Independents of Dahomey (category West Africa political party stubs)
the Djougou region in order to compete against Hubert Maga and the Dahomeyan Democratic Movement (MDD). It was originally known as Defense of Economic Interests...
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such: the Republican Party of Dahomey (PRD), led by Sourou-Migan Apithy received 37 seats with 144,038 votes; the Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (RDD), led by...
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French Dahomey on 31 March 1957. The result was a victory for the Republican Party of Dahomey, which won 35 of the 60 seats. Figures for independent candidates...
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1968 Dahomeyan presidential election, May 1968 Dangbo Dantokpa Market Darou Kourarou Paul Darboux Dassa-Zoumé Antoine Dayori Debregourou Democratic Renewal...
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Rosine Vieyra Soglo (category Benin Rebirth Party politicians)
Major Mathieu Kérékou overthrew the country's government in the 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état. Nicéphore and Rosine Soglo were forced to flee into exile...
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The 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'état was a military coup staged on 26 October 1972 by Major (later General) Mathieu Kérékou, who took control of the Republic...
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